New Ulm weekly review., 1887-03-09
a total loss together with 464 bales Of
cotton. The loss OF life is very large.

= III tlE
The action OF the senate committee on
privileges and elections in reporting back
the credentials OF David Turpie is said to
have no significance, but was taken in ac-
cordance with a continuous line Of pre-
cedents. 1t is understood that when Mr..
Iurple, at the next session, presents him
self to be sworn in a protest will be enter
ed and that the contest will then begin.
Notice has been received from Indiana
that additional papers in the case are to
be submitted.
The suit Of the Supreme lodge Of
the Knights OF Honor, under the
Missouri charter, against the bond
OF Robert J. Breckenridge OF KY, for
S33, 900, claimed as deficit in his &C
counts as treasurer of the order went to
triailn the United States circuit court be.
fore u udge Jackson at Louisville. The de-
tense admitted that the books were wrong,
dition, but offered to compromise by pay
| nent OF $50, 600. It.was finally agreed to
allow judgment to be entered for the
plaintiff in $4,000.
At Ann Arbor, Mich, fire Quilted the
pharmacy department of the Michigan uni
versity and causing a loss of $4,000, fully
insured. large amount of valuable ap-
paratus and chemicals was destroyed.
The poisoning Of another woman, max
ing five in all, is alleged against Lawrence
Krug, now in jail in Chicago, suspected OF
ter. The supposed fifth victim was Gunda
Shoepwar, a pretty nineteen-year- old
daughter OF the sister OF Kruss first wife.
Nominations sent to the senate: To be
assistant adjutant general, with the rank
OF colonel, Lieut.. Col. William D. Whipple,
| assistant adjutant general; Lieut.. Col.
Chauncey McKeever TO be assistant ad-
jutant general, with the rank Of lieutenant
colonel; Maj. Oliver D. Greene, assistant
adjutant general; Maj. Samuel Breck, as
sistant 'adjutant general; Maj. Henry c.
Wood, assistant adjutant general; Mai
James P. Martin, assistant adjutant gen.
eral.
OF the 800 bodies OF earthquake victims
buried at Diana-Marino, only $50 bodies
were identified.
Senator Hugh Nelson has been appointed
governor OF British Columbia to succeed
Gov. Cornwall, whose term has expired.
Railroad men say that the recent storm
was unprecedented in the history of rail.
">~ding in Canada.
The aggregate increase to the naval ap.
preparation bill by the senate committee
on appropriations is between $21, 900, 600
and $22, 900, 900, but inasmuch as the ex.
penditures, cover five years, it is estimated
| next fiscal year will notexceed Sc, I OGO, 900,
which will raise the aggregate expenditure
for the year between $31, 900, 900 and $32,,
100000.
The British ship T. N. Hart. sailed IRON
New York May 16 for shanghai since which
time nothing had bee n heard of her, and it
is feared that she is lost with all on board.
She was commanded by Capt. Mccarthy
and had a crew OF twenty men.
The president has committed the death
sentence in the case of John Was ashington
and Simmons Woif two Seminole Indians,
to Imprisonment for lie. These Indians
were convicted OF rape on white woman
in the Indian Territory and were sentenced
to he hanged. The presidents action was
based ON a doubt as to the guilt OF the
men.
Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris has rented
house in London.
The railway people at Windsor, opposite
Detroit, are complaining very much OF
trouble and annoyance given them by the
American custom officers doing duty on
the railway ferry boats since the passage
OF the retaliatory bill. They say that
great inconvenience will be felt when navi-
CATION opens if the same course be pursued
and non-intercourse pretty well establish
ed.
v
the Times to show that the troubles in Ire
land arise from attempts of the govern
ment to enforce the payment OF rents
which their own land commission has tie.
clared the people are unable to pay. He
quotes from speeches Of Sir Michael Hicks
Beach and other conservatives made last
ytar, in which it was admitted that Mr..
Parnell was able to prove the premises of
h tenants relief bill, the governmen
would be bound to attempt to supply
remedy. The land commission says the
writer, proved Mr.. Parnel to be in the
right, yet the government, instead OF
bringing a bill to deal with judicial rents,
proposes fresh coercial measures.
The New York jury to whom was given
the question at issue in the action at is
sue brought on by Minnie Clark, who calls
herself Mrs. Mary Kittson, against Her.
| cules kittson OF Minnesota the young son.
OF the Commodore, for a legal separation
on the ground OF his abandonment, decid-
ed that, although there had been ceremony
OF marriage performed between the parties,
yet at the time the defendant was incapa-
BILE OF entering into any such contrac t, be-
| cause of his being intoxicated. The jury
also found that the plaintiff and de.
fendant had not eohabited as husband and
wife, and that she is a person Of question
able character, and that she has been gull.
| ty of adultery with Charles Spillane. The
case will now 60 to the special term of the
supreme court for the settlement OF the leg.
al questions involved, and motion will
| probably be heard then to set the verdict
| aside.
Senator Jones OF Florida, who is still in
Dstroit, says the action of the governor in
appointing a successor to him to hold Of
| fee until the legislature meets is clearly le-
gal. He says he is not candidate for re-
election, but would accept the honor il
thrust upon him.
The vetoed bill for building at Sioux
City, Iowa, was passed by the senate
| over the veto-38 toS16.
The Rocky Mountain section of the
| Canadian Pacific has suffered from the re:
cent heavy rains, which have carried away
several small bridges. Through traffic will
be delayed for some days in consequence.
| The new German reichstag was opened
at Berlin on the Sd. The emperor's speech
was read from the throne In it he says:
Hc is qratified 81. the heneynlant fisnnsi.